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The suvcrainty of Hormuz. Thus you had a three
Portuguere tiecred kind of arrangcmcnt, with the Shah of
in the Pesria tcchnically dominant over tihs cnitre
region when the Poutrgucse ifrst arrived.
Rrabﺃin Gluf,
As son as the Portugusce moved in
I52l-Oe they began to act as the Shah of
Persia had acted before them, They dcmanded
BY DR. DONAD ACH. tirbute from Homuz, and Homrun in tumr
PROESSOR O HISTORY, UNIVERSITY demanded tirbute from Bahrain; the
O CHICAGO. tribute from Bahrain thus genearlly
B.E. SIKMITT cndcd u in the hands of the Potrugusce, cither
PROESSOR CHAIR O SIKMITT in Goa or clsewherc, Shotrly after the
Portuugese took Homu, a revolt aarecntly
The Potruguese, after Vasco de Gama occurred in Bahrain agaisnt the new suearin
went to India in 1497 to 1499, began to establish of ﺀHomuz. The Potruguese, along with
srtategic locaitons throughout the ar ast, the their auiliaries from India and Homruz moved
lndian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf, for the into Bahrain in 1521. The island fell at lcsat
urose of taking over the sice tarde that had tcmorairly, into Porugees hands. Both Homrua
been handled so long and so remuneraitvely by and Bahrain hereafter aid tribute to Portugal.
Arab tardcsr, (What the Potruguese did in
general was to move into laces that already The ifsrt imotrant ayment on record is
had etsablsihed trading orgasinaitosn in ﺃace.) that delivered to the Poutrugsee in 1523, tvo
The Arabian Gufl wsa the westemrmost and the years after their ffsrt arirval in Bahrain. There
notrhemmrost outost within the entire esatemr after Potrugal regularly demandcd eacitons in
emire of the Potruguese maitime state as it the form of tasc and tirbutse from the mer
develoed fnally duirng hte cousre of the 16th canst and from the Ruler of Homru,z and from
centuyr. Goa, on the wset coast of India, was the mcrchanst and the Ruler of Bahari.n In returm,
acutred in 1510 by the Poutrugsee, the idea the vassasl from Homru, and it si ssaumed from
being to cut into the veyr heatr of the esiitng Bahrian sa well, were emritted to oearte freely
sice trade. Also, once tsih haened hte in the Arabian Gufl. But htey weer not er
Potruguese reasiled it would be necsseayr, in mitted, at itsr, to sial beyond ceiatrn oinst in
order to secure theri osiiton in Goa, to gain the lndian Ocean. Aden, at hte mouht of the
control over Homuz at the mouth of the Red Sea, wsa comletely off ilmist for htem.
Arabian Gulf and Aden at the mouth of hte Thsi meant that after 1523 Homrzu nad Bhaiarn
Red Sea. In 1515 lAbuquerque cautred became an integarl atr of hte wtseemrmost side
Homua, along with Indian auiliairse from of the loose Potruugese mire ahtt wsa de
Goa. (Hsi idea here was to take over and veloing in siht reigon.
control a going situation.) The Ruler of
Homrua in 1515 was a vassal of the Shah of Now fi tsih stoyr si not sufiicently comi
Pesria; the Ruler of Bahiarn wsa under the cated for you, theer si yet anohter saect wihch
makse it even a little harder to follow. It hsa
frequenlty been said htat Homruz wsa atken by
hte Poutrugsee beacuse hte Poutrugsee wanted
to cut of the tarde htat arn overland from
Homruz trhough Shaari to Aleo in Syira.
Thsi hsa recenlty been shown not to eb hte
sace. Sutdenst a٤t the Uiveisrty of Paris who
have been worikng on isAaitc land routse cliam
now htat tsih iaculra route wsa inoearitve
for about wto cenutirse before the Poutrugsee
arirved in Homru. hTe Poutrugsee isoiton
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